Christl Rikka Perkins is a Black/Japanese writer and teacher living in Oakland, CA. She was a freelance writer and teacher in China for 8 years. She was published in American Fiction 17, Half and One and God’s Cruel Joke. Christl has been an active member of WriteNow!-SF Writers Workshop and was published in Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color. She is a member of the Writers’ Grotto and a fellow of the Writers Grotto-SF’s Rooted & Written. Christl earned her BA in International Relations from SFSU, her MA in Government & Politics from University of Maryland, College Park, her Certificate in Fiction from UCLA Extension’s Writers Program and her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles.